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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this ...
Life in the Indian Army Unit shown is possibly the 15th Punjab Regiment).
The day begins with reveill and ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
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WINGS OVER SINGAPORE NAVY REPELS ATTACK ON CONVOY INDIAN TRAINEES IN BRITAIN FALL OF ...
A tribute to the Indian troops who had fought in the Libyan campaign.
Over film of Indian troops marching ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training ...
A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and ...
A picture, early in the war, of the armed solidarity of the British Empire.
The film serves to illustrate ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). ...
Reel One: The film opens with the title "WOMEN + WAR" with an illustration of St George and the Dragon, ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and ...
Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the ...
Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as ...
Scenes of an Indian Durbar.
Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.
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A record of the Thaw Asiatic Expedition. The Maharajah of Mysore and the Prime Minister. The Krishna Raja Saga Dam ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Doctor showing a variety of scenes in and around Mysore (Southern India) including festival ...
Documentary on life in the Indian Air Force (IAF) culminates with a plea to Indian audience for more ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least ...
The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large ...
A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He ...
Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the ...
The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its ...
INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the ...
Amateur film. Funeral procession of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal 1937-9, in Calcutta in 1939.
Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, GUNGA DIN is a fictional tale set in British India during the Thuggee ...
Ship's voyage from Aden, through the Suez Canal to Egypt. Street traders and traders seeking business from the ship. Snake ...
A welcoming committee of dignitaries for the arrival of a train. A procession through the streets with elephants. The groom ...
Depicts medical work of the London Missionary Society at Jianganj, specifically at the new hospital built by the Society to ...
START 00:00:00 Views filmed inside a drydock (probably the one at Whampoa Dock from 21 to 24 October 1939) showing ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson of the Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley Rifles), Indian Army while serving on the North-West Frontier ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Paddy O'Neill of the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army, while attached to the Federated Malay ...
AMATEUR. Amateur film of Sir Conrad Corfield and family and of colonial life in India.
Childrens school in England. House in ...
Travelogue of Delhi.
Main title and credits. Map of India, which zooms in on Delhi. Fade to view of plains ...
Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.
The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.
Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.
Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts ...
The lives and customes of the Hindus of India, based on a book by Father Lhande.
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.
Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform ...
Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The ...
Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.
Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning ...
Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles on the Kojak Pass and Afghan Frontier near Chaman, officers and wives competing ...